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The concept of a Jurassic Theme Park with live dinosaurs has always mesmerized me. Where can I buy a ticket?! 🫣 So I finally read the book where it all started. I was surprised to find a frightfully sinister Hammond and an even more annoying Malcolm and Lex. But overall terrifying factor—off the charts. Must read more Michael Crichton. What a creative genius he was! Is the original movie better than the book? I‘d say they go best hand in hand.

I‘ve loved the movies since I was a kid, but recently saw a review depicting the book as much more horrific and I immediately downloaded it. It was definitely more graphic and gorier. I was surprised by some of the different characters in the novel and the difference in who made it to the end. I kept reading it before bed and then feeling uneasy the rest of the night lol.

Do you think it‘s worth trying The Lost World next?

A 5 star of course. Loved rereading this.

I just love that Ian Malcolm is allowed to have these pages long diatribes. 🙌

TL;DR version 🤣

Ian Malcolm making POINTS. Applicable today points, at that...

Time to revisit this one 🥰🥰🥰

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#reptile
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Dinosaurs are sort of reptiles, right? 🦖🦕🦖

You want dinosaurs? You want mathematicians predicting your business will fail? You want a greedy millionaire with a miniature elephant? This book has all that and a bratty kid that will make you roll your eyes so hard, you swear you landed in the park itself. The kills in the book are top notch and I even giggled at one. Can you guess which? Highly recommend this ridiculous book where money can‘t buy you disciplined dinosaurs. Tragic. I know.

Clear why this is a classic. Slow burn that accelerates to a sprint-paced marathon finish. Wonderfully combines action with philosophy and the consequences of so-called “advances.”

A must read classic science fiction novel. Fans of the film may be bothered by narrative changes that take a slow burn thriller and transforms it to an action adventure. However, many of the themes of control, genetics, and recreational attractions and the mathematical sledgehammer of info dumps throughout work better as a novel than a film.

An example of source and film being perfect but also different.

I got this book because I really wanted to read the story that the movie was based one. They movie and book are quite different from each other in a lot of ways, the book makes the dinosaurs seem way more terrifying and the park management way more incompetent. The only thing I didn‘t like was book Lex, she is the most annoying character I‘ve ever seen. If you look up the tv trope “The Load”, you‘ll understand. I still really enjoyed it though.

Hey everyone. First off I'd like to thank everyone who checked in on me whilst I've been missing. Had a lot going on. Been a long time since I've been able to read sorry @curiouserandcurioser as I know we were reading together. On the up side I have finally been able to talk my sister @CymbaX13 into reading Jurassic Park. I'm hoping to read along with her with my new little buddy pictured above. I hope everyone is ok, happy reading and weekend

#SciGoneWrong 🦖🦕 #NewYearNewBooks 🎆🥳📖

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It's perhaps an unfair comparison, as nostalgia and repeated viewings have the original film firmly entrenched in positive association and memory, and this is my first time encountering the book, but this is a case for me of ' the movie was better'. 1/?

Freedom for the moose! Clever moose! 🫎
This is just a weird passage to read for a Canadian, in any case, not that I want to hear about any animals in zoos, but I can't think of anything less exotic to put on display!

Latest coincidental colourway of current/upcoming reads to please my eyeballs. 😍

I really do love this book. Reread 4 for me.

Another excellent read. Quite a dark book comparing to the movie. Gripping action holding up until the last minute. I was surprised how the focus of the book was almost complete opposite from the movie, greed vs. miscalculated dream. Both movie and book are excelent, now I am very curious about The Lost World book, hopefully will pick it up soon.

I have to confess, I‘m only a few pages into JP, but it‘s already so good. I‘ve actually read it before, but it was not long after the movie came out when I was 10 years old, so I don‘t remember much, and probably didn‘t really understand it.

I made Salsa Lizano for #FoodAndLit #CostaRica, & put it on a ribeye (that I got WAY on sale 😉). It was really good, but I wish my pic was better. That steak looks like it was mauled by a velociraptor.

Oh, that was fun, those were some nasty dinosaurs 🦖 I see how this is a classic, I really liked the mathematician and his predictions, his criticism of modern society, ethics and also how he makes everyone consider the responsibility for their actions, even the palaeontologists.
Absorbing, couldn't stop listening!
(I never watched the movies, but will watch at least the first one now😃)

#foodandlit Costa Rica 🇨🇷
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This book is freakin awesome.

1️⃣ This coming Monday, me and @LostInSpace are going to my home country, Scotland, for a week, and we'll be going to Loch Lomond where there's a Jurassic Park themed restaurant! 😀

2️⃣ To be able to learn anything instantly, To be able to go back in time and fix things in my life, Proper food/water/shelter for all people of the world

Thanks for the tag @Ast_Arslan

I tag everyone.

i really identify with the character Alan grant because he likes dinosaurs and i like dinosaurs he is smart and rational and (according to my friends) I'm smart and rational

I don‘t have any punny books, but this is my favourite book related shirt from Out of Print
#temptingtitles
#withapun

I read this book back in high school and reread it as part of our local book store‘s Books to Movie series. It‘s still a page-turner. Parts read as if they are current events of today. I love the science behind the story. Yet I can‘t help but think that Steven Spielberg improved on the elements with his film.

The debate carried by Malcom about if science really contributes to advance civilization and how we should ask scientists for accountability and be aware of which "advances" are good for us and which ones are not is really interesting.The author talks a lot about how we are not destroying the planet,the planet will survive, life will continue, we won't.⬇️

Good science fiction makes you believe that what happens in the book could happen in real life,doesn't matter how fantastic it sounds.I'm not going to surprise anyone by saying this books makes you believe that cloning dinosaurs could happen(and that it would be a bad idea?).For those fans of the first movie that are wondering if reading the book worth's it,yes,it does.The material is well researched,the story is a bit different,and ⬇️⬇️

This was me absorbed in Jurassic Park while in Puerto Vallarta. This was one of (if not the) most exciting books I read in 2022 (finished on Jan 2nd). It‘s grisly, cinematic, and grounded in its fantasy, which is terrifying. It was a blast! 🦖

The book is even better than the movie. After seeing the movie countless times I didn't expect the book to surprise me but it did.The book had several different details, and plot holes in the movie were closed. Remember the Dino poop scene? Answered. I finished at 1am and couldn't sleep from that hyped up horror feeling. This book aged well. I Definitely recommend it! #bookspin November @TheAromaofBooks

From page one there is a quiet horror that seeps out of the pages, the build up is slow which only adds to the dread, the gloom is a real as the mist over the island.

Then all of a sudden everything happens at once and I spent 60% of the book in a state of anxiety. There is no let up, no recovery time, no time to sit back in your seat, its full on up until the last page.

This is an incredibly bingeable book.

Fantastic.

📚 Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

🖋 Norton Juster

🎞 Jaws, Jour de Fete

🎤 Janis Joplin

🎼 “Je Ne Me Connais Pas,” by Mattiel #manicmonday #letterj @CBee These were easy favorites today, but I am convinced I‘ve forgotten someone or something :)

#Movie2BookRecs @klou
Prompt: Night At the Museum

When you have to stay in hospital and have no book but your best mate knows what film would work 🦖😍🦕 I'll answer your email as soon as I'm home @curiouserandcurioser sorry. Hope every litten is OK. #litsylove @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Cupcake12 @Yuki_Onna #hospitalstay #needsbook #jurassicpark #dinosaurs

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Chaplin told me I absolutely had to choose Jurassic Park for this letter since it's my husband's favorite book of all time! And really, I do love it too! 💕🦖🦕 #catsoflitsy #chaplin

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I definitely recommend the book even if you've seen the movie a thousand times. The book gives a lot more insight into the theoretical aspects of the story, but it's still fast-paced and action-packed.

I couldn‘t believe how close the movie stayed to the book. I read this more than a decade ago and it was just as fun this time around. Dinos and death, human hubris and it‘s inevitable downfall, so fun!

Great article & having just seen the newest Jurassic, I so missed Ellie Sattler & all the great, no bs women on this list. We need more of that in books & movies.

https://www.tor.com/2022/06/09/the-awesome-women-scientists-of-1990s-sff/?utm_so...

Guess what movie I‘m seeing? Lol! I hope it‘s good!

At the movies!!

Finally got around to reading this. I must say, as much as I love the movie, the book is just so much better.

My son got this for his birthday. I think the adults are enjoying it more then he is. Trying to convince my hubby to read the books, he is more of a movie watcher only kinda of guy.

Read it right after my friend, Caitlin #bfls
Can be summed up by a tweet I saw “in a sense, none of our dinosaurs have ever escaped because society itself is just another larger cage. Fuck yeah that sounds so smart. But yeah like 18 to 19 dinosaurs are currently loose.”

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I couldn't pass up using one of my favorite books and movies for #Laboratory. Life finds a way. 😁

Someone ⬆️🐕 is stropping and giving me this look because I stopped his belly rub to turn my page 😑 I'm sorry Korben it's a tense scene.... 😬🦖 oooops. #dogsoflitsy #readingpal #readingpet #dinosaurs @CymbaX13 @TheWolfbehindTheEyes